Doha: Qatar’s former prime minister and strongman was on Tuesday replaced as deputy head of the powerful Qatar Investment Authority in a shakeup ordered by the country’s new young emir, official QNA news agency reported.

Shaikh Hamad Bin Jasem Al Thani had already lost his post as foreign and prime minister when the new Emir Shaikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani announced his cabinet on June 26.

The emir decided in a decree to restructure the QIA’s administrative council, of which he is the head, handing the vice-presidency to his half-brother Prince Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Thani, QNA said.